Don’t Badger Me
I’d be willing to bet that a very small percentage of people reading this have ever laid eyes on one of these Michigan critters. In my sojurne here I have only seen a road kill, and one up north, many years ago. This is a full grown badger, and he’s itching for a fight. Even though these secretive animals are rarely seen, they will not back down from defending their “turf!”
My brother Darryl was turkey hunting, last week, around Gaylord, when he came across this badger near it burrow. Darryl was able to snap a few pictures, as the badger growled and hissed his disapproval of the intrusion into his territory. Did you ever wonder where we got the word badgering (to harass) from? Well Darryl is kind of smart when it comes to badgering a badger, so he took two pictures , and got the heck out of this “gopher with an attitude’s” area!
Darryl had a permit for the third turkey hunt, and I’m sure I’ll be reporting on his success within the next few days. Hope everyone had a good memorial day. Remember those that didn’t!
Mike
May 27th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I can’t say that I’ve ever ran into a badger in all my hunting and fishing travels. Cool pictures though.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I’ve never seen a badger. That’s very cool.
May 28th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I didn’t know Michigan had badgers - we’ve got them aplenty around here and used to see them frequently. They’re quite a nuisance - their holes are not kind to tractor equipment and crops. We’ve killed several on the farm with shovels ( a long story that I may have to tell someday!) but it didn’t don on me till reading this post that I’ve not seen a badger on the farm in about 7 - 8 years.